BOISE, Idaho — A dozen years after a customer revolt forced Monsanto to ditch its genetically engineered potato, an Idaho company aims to resurrect high-tech spuds.

Nick Escalante enjoys grilling his family's meals a couple of times a week year-round, but doesn't like cleaning the greasy mess that comes with it.

Tonto National Forest joins other federal agencies in offering fee-free days on public lands in 2013, beginning Monday in conjunction with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

A satellite designed, built and tested in Gilbert will be launched in February to circle the globe collecting data for NASA and the Department of Interior.

I love the swimming holes of Slide Rock and the roaring Havasu Falls. These not-so-secret escapes are gorgeous, must-see destinations.

As the U.S. economy emerged from a deep recession more than two years ago, Faye Taylor found herself living in Chandler without a job, riding her bike to Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank on Arizona Avenue each month to pick up two large bags of groceries.

The Big Canyon fire, a lightning-caused blaze reported Oct. 14, is about 80 percent contained, forest authorities said Monday.

The Big Canyon Fire about 14 miles from Payson still burns uncontained as of Tuesday night. The Tonto National Forest announced a closure, “to ensure public and firefighter safety” during suppression activities. The lightning-cased fire began Sunday and has burned about 170 acres.

Forest authorities are battling a wildfire two miles west of the Tonto Fish Hatchery in northern Arizona. As of Sunday night, it had grown to about 100 acres.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be hosting a meeting for Hispanic or women farmers or ranchers who believe that they were improperly denied farm loan benefits between 1981 and 2000 because they are Hispanic or female.

No business owner wants to hear that a government agency is coming to inspect their workplace — whether it’s the USDA, the EPA or the IRS. But if there was a government agency that could help save money, improve productivity and increase employee morale — free of charge — businesses just might be interested.

Phoenix and Maricopa County homebuyers can now get a 5 percent down payment assistance grant and a low, competitive mortgage rate through the Home in Five Advantage mortgage origination program issued by the IDAs of the city of Phoenix and Maricopa County.

ROOSEVELT – Thursday’s change of weather allowed firefighters to construct additional fireline on the 4,800-acre Mistake Peak Fire and bring it to 25 percent containment.

The Mistake Peak Fire in Tonto National Forest has grown to 1,700 acres and is 15 percent contained.

The Tonto National Forest is reopening and modifying closures of some of its campgrounds following three bear attacks on campers in May and June.

The Tonto National Forest is reopening and modifying closures of some of its campgrounds following three bear attacks on campers in May and June.

For kids with food allergies, and their parents, a new school year can be worrisome.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cornflakes won't necessarily be more expensive as a result of rising corn prices, but the milk you pour over them might be.

All campfire, smoking, and target shooting restrictions affecting the Tonto National Forest have been lifted, effective 8 a.m., Wednesday, July 25.

School cafeterias – where thousands of East Valley students eat lunch each day – are going gourmet, sort of.

We’ve all gotten the finger-wagging lecture about protein from fitness trainers. Their demands for more of it leave us picturing a Henry VIII turkey leg in one hand and a dumbbell in the other. We eat meat — we’re no bunch of Birkenstock-wearing vegans (not that there’s anything wrong with that). So what the heck are they talking about?

A fire that began earlier Saturday along the median and west side of SR 87 is estimated at about 30 acres and is contained, according to the National Forest Service.

Arizona Game and Fish Department wildlife officers and personnel from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services lethally removed three black bears over the weekend, following a trio of bear attacks within the last month that resulted in the closures of campgrounds near Payson.

We’ve all gotten the finger-wagging lecture about protein from fitness trainers. Their demands for more of it leave us picturing a Henry VIII turkey leg in one hand and a dumbbell in the other. Many of us already eat meat, so what are they talking about?